Employee of the Month - Season 2, Episode 5

S2 episode 5

While planting some new succulents, Emma and Maggie find a newly divorced Mark jogging back and forth in front of their house. Unsure what to do, they invite him in where they press him to discuss his feelings about the divorce. Instead Mark insists he fix their terrible water pressure.

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Womp up the jamz, Jammers! There’s several references to Jessica and Lennon’s podcast alter-egos, Marissa Wompler and Charlotte Listler. When Maggie and Emma help Mark through his divorce, he immediately makes himself at home by eating all of Emma’s DiGiorno pizzas, the meal of choice for Marissa Wompler. In the scene where Emma discovers Mark’s train scale model Pinebrook train set, Mark says he ran out of figurines and had to use a McDonald’s Grimace for Emma. Wompler frequently likens her body shape to the purple McDonaldland character.

Employee of the Month

Employee of the Month

Mark and Emma play the video game Fatal Blowout 2, a nod to the video game created by Joe in Lennon and Jessica’s first tv show Best Friends Forever. In fact, the original game footage created for BFF was used in this episode -- enhanced this time with sentient spiders, of course.

Employee of the Month

Employee of the Month

Matt Walsh makes his Playing House debut as Maggie’s lonely boss Phil. Walsh is the third of the UCB “core four” to appear on Playing House. Art department made sure to pack Phil’s office calendar with a ton of funny notes to himself like “How to Properly Marry Condiments, “music to download -- DJ Buck, Rapping Rabbi, Seal,”and “How To: Really Let Your Ficus Thrive.”

Employee of the Month

Employee of the Month

The cheesy restaurant birthday song was written specifically for the show by writer and producer Anthony King. King also co-wrote the off-broadway musical “Gutenberg! The Musical!”as well Playing House Season 1 highlight “Bird Bones.”He was also a writer on Lennon and Jessica’s first show Best Friends Forever. Marissa Jaret Winokur, who won a Tony for her turn as Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray, sings lead on the tune backed up by Maggie and a waitress played by Lennon and Jessica’s real-life assistant.

Employee of the Month

S2 EP5

While planting some new succulents, Emma and Maggie find a newly divorced Mark jogging back and forth in front of their house. Unsure what to do, they invite him in where they press him to discuss his feelings about the divorce. Instead Mark insists he fix their terrible water pressure.

While planting some new succulents, Emma and Maggie find a newly divorced Mark jogging back and forth in front of their house. Unsure what to do, they invite him in where they press him to discuss his feelings about the divorce. Instead Mark insists he fix their terrible water pressure.